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counterused

counterused is the simple past and past participle of counteruse.

Meaning of counteruse

Verb

counteruse (third-person singular simple present counteruses, present participle counterusing, simple past and past participle counterused)

  1. (transitive) To use something against (someone or something).
    • By the story's end, both sides are using and counterusing this technique, evading each other "to and fro along an ever increasing complexity of mutually perpendicular time axes." Indeed, the final count exceeds 75(!) time axes, making two-dimensional time look rather skimpy by comparison.1993, Paul J. Nahin, Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction, Woodbury, N.Y.: American Institute of Physics, →ISBN, page 164

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Questions about counterused

What is counterused the simple past and past participle of?
Counterused is the simple past and past participle of counteruse.

Words near counterused in the dictionary

  1. countertype
  2. countertypes
  3. counterurbanisation
  4. counterurbanization
  5. counteruse
  6. counterused
  7. counteruses
  8. counterusing
  9. countervail
  10. countervailability
  11. countervailable

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